The Mobile Frontier

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The computing industry is undergoing major evolution positioning mobile devices as the primary personal computing device. This blog will identify concepts and observations related to that evolution - missives on the journey to a mobile computing world.

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This blog post is contributed by Ron Favali, an IBM MobileFirst Cloud Services marketing and strategy manager.
Oktoberfest dates back to 1810 as a marriage celebration for King Ludwig I and Therese of Saxe-Hildurghhausen , in Munich, Germany. Redmonk , the leading developer focused analyst firm, established its roots in 2002.
The result when the two are combined is Monktoberfest taking place this week in Portland, Maine. The event –which combines craft software and craft beer--offers a backdrop for... [More]

This blog post is coauthored by Bhargav Perepa, a WebSphere IT specialist/architect at IBM Federal Software Group in Washington, DC, and Stephen Ades, worldwide enterprise mobility management (EMM) principal solutions consultant for IBM.
Are you looking to engage your mobile consumers with personalized, simple notifications? Do you want to reach your savvy but forgetful mobile users with rich notifications delivered programmatically through a mobile application? Would your mobile developers be interested in delivering notifications... [More]

This blog post contributed by Owen Cline, a member of the IBM Software Services for Websphere team based in San Diego, California.
Prior to IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) 8.5.5, it was difficult to develop coaches for multiple form factors (browsers, tablets, smartphones). The stock coach views (controls like text, date and so on) were not developed to change size if the coach was rendered on different multiple-form-factor devices. Developers could develop around this, but it was costly. Sometimes it was easier to just adopt... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Nathan Hazout, a developer for the web and for mobile who does customer oriented R&D for IBM Worklight.
Google Chromecast is an implementation of Google Cast , “a technology that enables multi-screen experiences and lets a user send and control content like video from a small computing device like a phone, tablet, or laptop to a large display device like a television.”
Google provides native APIs (Android and iOS) to allow your application to send media to a Chromecast dongle.... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Manny Santana, a Software Group Client Technical Professional specializing in Endpoint and Mobility in IBM Australia.
With the announcement of iOS 8 back in June 2014 and its impending release later this year, let’s take a step back and review the recent mobile device management (MDM) deployment capabilities introduced in the iOS 7.1 update released last March. The following are the major enhancements that were introduced and made available in IBM MaaS360 , our enterprise mobility... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Serkan Ersanlı who has been working as an IT Architect in IBM GBS and handles Regional Mobile and Social Solutions Focal Point in the MEA Region.
Consumer touchpoints have never been more varied than they are today. Mobile is now one of the most critical touchpoints, and mobile enterprises cannot ignore the importance of customer experience management (CEM).
In this blog post, I will share high-level information about the IBM Tealeaf CX platform and then go into more detail about... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Susann Keohane, an Accessibility Lead for the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center.
This year IBM announced it has standardized on EPUB, an open standard format for digital publications developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), as its primary packaged portable document format. Moving to EPUB is beneficial for any organization as it increases customer satisfaction and allows mobile users to access and consume documents easily and without degradation of performance.... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Stephane Tremblay, a networking specialist with Global Technology services for IBM.
So you've been planning for that new mobile application for months and now you’re all set to go. You’re going to impose a change in your users’ operations with new technology, and you know you have only one chance to make a good first impression.
You’ve done your work and everything is in place—or is it?
Let me talk to you about something people tend to... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Richard Gamblin, a Software Architect who advises organizations on the application of Mobile, WebSphere and System z technologies.
When it comes to transforming the face of business through consumer engagement, mobile is the hot topic on every chief marketing officer’s lips. The frustration at having to wait for new ideas to be delivered is now fading given the pace at which technology can turn concept into reality. I don’t mean simply converting a web page into a mobile app. I’m... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Bhargav Perepa, a WebSphere IT Specialist/Architect at IBM Federal Software Group in Washington, DC.
Is your business looking to connect with mobile consumers in an innovative, context aware, insightful and personalized way? Even better, are you looking to engage with your mobile consumers in a simple, quick manner without requiring heavy-duty information technology resources that involve programmers, databases, content management or advertisers? The IBM MobileFirst portfolio offers fit-for-purpose... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Steven Kim Yong Yeo, an experienced network architect and consultant.
One of the big IT trends today is the evolution of the user computing environment —shifting from fat client to thin client. In the thin-client computing environment, the small traffic that smart devices generate when sending a service request will trigger huge interactive traffic among servers. So there will be fundamental changes in the traffic flow pattern.
The following diagram shows the shift from... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Tamer Abuelsaad, a mobile specialist and consultant with IBM Interactive Canada and AIS.
Previously I blogged about how to gain deeper knowledge of Android apps . Since then I have applied the deep inspection I mentioned to my Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX HD . I would like to share some interesting observations with you.
Background on my phone usage
I am a software engineer, so I tend to use my phone for development and experimentation. However,... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Aditya Dutta, a Senior IT Architect at IBM India.
As we see rapid adoption of devices with multiple viewport sizes, responsive web design (RWD) is no longer optional. It is an aspect of user interface (UI) creation that demands serious consideration and decision making. Until now, we typically saw this as applicable just on websites that would be accessible on multiple devices. But now business users expect the same level of user experience while participating in enterprise business processes... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Justin Ndreu, a Senior IT Architect for IBM within IBM Global Technology Services.
It's amazing how rapidly technology standards evolve these days. For wireless LANs (WLANs), 802.11ac is now the standard for new deployments or upgrades, even though the previous standard, 802.11n, never reached its full potential—and now never will.
What has really changed, though, with 802.11ac? And what are the key things you need to know if you are planning a new deployment or WLAN upgrade? We hear... [More]

This blog post is contributed by Andrii Vasylchenko, a Worklight technical sales leader for Central and Eastern Europe.
You don’t have automated tests in your mobile project? Still thinking that automated functional test creation is a long and complicated process that requires a high level of initial knowledge? What if I say that you can create automated functional tests for your mobile application in less than three minutes? What if I say that in those three minutes we will, in addition, configure the device and application for... [More]